Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here.
Thank you to the ministers, their staff, and others who have come here today.
On behalf of the NDP, I want to take a moment to echo our sympathies for the family of Constable Beckett.
I want to focus my remarks. Although I share the concerns of the other members about some of the benefit implications, I would say that part of the issue here also is about determining some pretty big decisions about benefits prior to bringing in a new regime of collective bargaining. I think it would be appropriate to hold off on big changes like this until there is a process that can formally recognize employees so that they might be part of that conversation. In consulting those members, we may well learn things that are important and that could guide these changes in order to make them better.
I wonder if the President of the Treasury Board could tell us if it's a priority for his government to not perpetuate the approach to labour of the previous government.